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AGAIN VICTORIOUS.
Jack Dempsey Does Up Johnny Reagan
on the Hudson's Historic Banks.


NEW YORK December 13th.-Jack Demp-
sey and Johnny Regan met this morning
up the Hudson river, and fought TO finish
| Tor the middleweight championship of
America and $1,000 prize money, under the
London prize ring rules. The ring was
| pitched near the shore, and the fight began
| about $50 o'clock. Terrific fighting was
done from the start, clinching and pound
| ing being in order. In the second round
Dempsey claimed that Reagan was fouling
| him by spiking, and the referee cautioned
Reagan against it. In the third, however,
Reagan accidentally spiked Dempsey in a
| terrible manner in the left leg. The cut
was so deep the bone could be seen. There
was much wrangling, Dempsey's umpire
claiming the fight. The referee overruled
| it, however.
In the fifth round the tide, which was on
| the flood, began to creep into the ring, and
Dempsey was compelled to move partly
out of his corner Still the men fought
desperately until the eighth round, which
was fought with the water three inches
deep all over the ring.
Dempseys leg was now in q terrible con-
| dition, and as it panied him the more he
! seemed to fight more desperately, if posi-
BILE, than before, Furnishing Reagan quite
severely.
There was no doubt by this time that
Reagan was no match for Dempsey in the
matter of wrestling, as the latter had
| thrown his opponent with ease and vigor
each time they clinched. At the close of
the eighth round the referee stopped the
| fight until another ring could be pitched on
dry land
The time occupied during these eight
| rounds was eighteen minutes. All went to
the boat, and the principals went to bed.
Wrangling between the parties continued
loud and long
At 12:10 p. NJ the fight was resumed in a
much better place. Dempsey went right at
Reagan and a clinch ensued, during which
terrific in-fghting was done. 1t ended by
Dempsey back-heeling Reagan and going
down with him heavily.
In the tenth round Dempsey smashed
Reagan in the ribs with his left and on the
nose with his right with terrific force, draw
ing blood, which was claimed but not al
| lowed for Dempsey. as Reagan had got the
first bood in the seventh round.
Reagan fought hard and fast, and elected
much praise. In the eleventh and twelfth
rounds Dempsey pounded and threw Rea-
| gan again. 1t was evident that the latter
had the worst of the bargain in agreeing to
London rules. He went on, however, ike
| a Spartan. In the thirteenth round Demp-
sey attempted again to back-heel his oppo-
| nent who went down on his knees TO avoid
/ a fall.
| Reagan was thrown hard in both the
| fourteenth and fifteenth rounds, while the
| in-fighting was of the most savage charac-
| ter In the sixteenth and seventeenth
rounds there were two more falls for Demp-
| sey, who also gave Reagan terrible smack
on the nose. In the eighteenth and nine
| teenth rounds the same thing was kept up,
although Reagan fought gamier and did
| the best be could.
| In the twentieth Dempsey kept up
tattoo on Reagan's ribs until the oozing
| blood made his body appear raw. When
| Reagan went down to avoid another fall,
| Dempsey cursed him and told him TO get
| up aud fight.
Reagan came up angry for the twenty
| first, and the fighting was furious. Dempsey
| receiving some heavy blows. Reagan was
! thrown, however, in this and the next
round.
Round twenty-five was a savage one.
Dempsey pounding his adversary 5 face in
g horrible manner, but the latter was game
| through and through.
Rounds twenty-six to thirty-four were
remarkable only for the way in which
Dempsey hit his man, and the frequency
with which Reagan went down to save
himself. Dempsey's umpire even urged
Dempsey to strike Reagan while he was on
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early part of the fight, bat Jack refused
to do it.
Rounds thirty-fye to thirty-eight were
characterized by an apparent revival of
power on the part of Reagan, who rushed
Dempsey some, but without much result.
In the thirty-seventh Reagan received
terrible thump on the ribs.
In the forty-first both men at the same
instant fetched each other vicious clips with
the right and left. Dempsey bad scarcely
mark on him at this time, except a
swollen left eye.
Rounds forty-two, forty-three and forty
four practically closed the battle Demp-
sey numerically punished Reagan, whose
lips were puffed. and his left eye closed.
He was voted by the spectators as game q
man as ever stood in 4 ring. He never
cried quit.
At the beginning Of round 45 Bob Smith,
at the solicitation of Reagan's friends, who
saw he had no chance 10 win, jumped into
the ring and threw up the sponge.
The fight lasted one hour and nine min
utes. In the first ring there was Is minutes
fighting, and in the second Al minutes. The
fight ended at 1:01 p. n, leaving Dempsey
still the champion middle e-weight. Both
men weighed 147 pounds. Dempsey has
won thirty fights, and had six draws. He
has never been defeated. Reagan only
fought two battles previous to this, winning
both